Ed Tech Data Harvesting Lawsuit Can Move Forward, Judge Says (1)

A class action from a group of parents accusing education technology firm IXL Learning Inc. of violating privacy laws to collect and sell students data can move forward, a federal judge ordered.

Judge Rita Lin for the US District Court for the Northern District of California denied the ed tech firm’s motion to compel arbitration on Nov. 1, batting down IXL’s arguments that a federal children’s privacy law’s allowance for schools to act as agents of consent for kids data equally bound parents to arbitration clauses.

“In essence, IXL argues that, simply by virtue of sending their children to public ...